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- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (11 Oct 2006)
Joe Higgins: How can the Minister, Deputy Cowen, stand here and, apparently without a hint of embarrassment, justify the debacle the Government has created with the privatisation of the national airline? How does he have the audacity, the shamelessness to read a script that was probably prepared by Stock Exchange sharks in New York to cover or justify the massive incompetence of which this Government is...
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (11 Oct 2006)
Joe Higgins: Not only is the Minister guilty of treachery in sabotaging the future of the national airline, but he is cheating the taxpayer by allowing the grubby international financiers to take the benefit of what has been created over decades by Irish workers and the Irish people. Why is he crying "foul" at Ryanair's attempt when he must have known from the beginning that the law of the Stock Exchange...
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (11 Oct 2006)
Joe Higgins: Those are not the facts. The State is entitled to invest in its national airline.
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (11 Oct 2006)
Joe Higgins: The Government lacks the vision and, more importantly, the commitment to public services, State ownership of an important industry, the thousands of workers, the tens of hundreds of people in the community who depend on the airline and the millions of passengers. This Government has contempt for State projects and for public service workers. Witness the Taoiseach's disgraceful blunderbuss...
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (11 Oct 2006)
Joe Higgins: The Tánaiste, Deputy McDowell, stated that the Government has millions to throw away.
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (11 Oct 2006)
Joe Higgins: There are no conspiracy theories. I was a member of Dublin County Council at the time and I know what happened.
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (11 Oct 2006)
Joe Higgins: I have not yet been obliged to appear before a tribunal.
- Overseas Missions: Motion. (11 Oct 2006)
Joe Higgins: The United Nations has no credibility as a champion for the people of Lebanon. Resolution 1701 blatantly understates the criminal slaughter of more than 1,000 Lebanese civilians by the Israeli armed forces. The barbaric destruction of huge swathes of infrastructure in Lebanon and the massacre of the innocents was carried out using armaments, aeroplanes and bombs supplied to Israel by two of...
- Overseas Missions: Motion. (11 Oct 2006)
Joe Higgins: While the Minister has contempt, we will see who will be laughing later.
- Crime Prevention: Motion (Resumed). (11 Oct 2006)
Joe Higgins: I commend the Independent Deputies on drawing attention to very important issues in respect of the dangerous drug situation in this country and, particularly, for emphasising the ongoing and devastating consequences of heroin addiction, particularly in working class communities. The motion also notes the failure of the Government to formulate an effective strategy in respect of dangerous...
- Official Engagements. (17 Oct 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 11: To ask the Taoiseach the official visits abroad he plans to undertake during the current Dáil session. [29216/06]
- Official Engagements. (17 Oct 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 12: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the matters discussed and conclusions reached at the Asia-Europe summit in Helsinki. [29219/06]
- Official Engagements. (17 Oct 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 13: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on bilateral meetings he attended on the margins of the Asia-Europe summit in Helsinki. [29220/06]
- Official Engagements. (17 Oct 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 14: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with King Harald V and Queen Sonja of Norway. [29224/06]
- Northern Ireland Issues: Statements (18 Oct 2006)
Joe Higgins: The deal cobbled together in St. Andrews in Scotland between the British and Irish Governments and the political parties in Northern Ireland is called an agreement. In reality it is shaky, full of contradictions, and will be prone to collapse because it was an agreement to agree something general with major issues left outstanding. Deals worked out between parties which are sectarian-based...
- Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (18 Oct 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 209: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will amend Section 469 of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 in order to allow the cost of specific tuition for children with dyslexia to qualify for tax relief under the heading of health expenses.. [33589/06]
- Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (18 Oct 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 234: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will allocate extra funds to the Health Service Executive to enable it to give the necessary financial support to the Coeliac Society of Ireland to continue its work and meet the future needs of their community, in view of the fact that the HSE has stated on this issue that it did not receive additional resources in 2006...
- Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (18 Oct 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 293: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will increase the income level for eligibility for third level grants in order that a couple who each earn the average industrial wage or less would qualify for a grant to send their child to third level education. [33582/06]
- Dublin-Monaghan Bombings. (24 Oct 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach when he expects to receive the final report of the commission of investigation into the Dublin and Monaghan bombings of 1974. [29233/06]
- National Security Committee. (24 Oct 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 15: To ask the Taoiseach when the National Security Committee last met; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29230/06]